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Jason Hrivnak’s MUTILATION SONG is on the Sade 2019 shortlist

September 13, 2019

Janice Lynn Mather’s LEARNING TO BREATHE has been nominated for the Amy Mathers Teen Choice Award

September 12, 2019

Janice Lynn Mather’s LEARNING TO BREATHE has been selected for the Amy Mathers Teen Choice Award shortlist of the 2019 CCBC Book Awards. The winner will be announced later this fall, you can find details about the award here.

Cut You Down is nominated for a Shamus award for Best Private Eye novel

June 10, 2019

Sam Wiebe’s Cut You Down is nominated for a Shamus Award in the Best Private Eye Novel category. You can see the full list of nominees here.

CATHAL KELLY HAS won THE LEACOCK PRIZE

June 10, 2019

Cathal Kelly became the 72nd recipient of The Leacock Memorial Medal of Humour for Boy Wonders this past weekend. You can find details about the prize and read Cathal’s acceptance speech here.

Geddy Lee is at the top of The globe and mail bestseller list

May 31, 2019

Geddy Lee’s BIG BEAUTIFUL BOOK OF BASS hit #1 on the Canadian non-fiction list this week. You can see the full list here.

Aida Edemariam has won the RSL Ondaatje Prize

May 14, 2019

Aida Edemariam has won the £10,000 RSL Ondaatje Prize for her memoir The Wife’s Tale: A Personal History. You can see details about the prize here.

Claudia Dey and Tamara Faith Berger have been nominated for the Trillium Book Award

May 14, 2019

Claudia Dey’s Heartbreaker and Tamara Faith Berger’s Queen Solomon are among five English language finalists for the Trillium Book Award. You can see the full list of nominees here.

Geddy Lee has been selected for two different Globe and Mail Bestseller Lists this week

May 10, 2019

GEDDY LEE’S BIG BEAUTIFUL BOOK OF BASS hit #2 on the Canadian non-fiction and #4 on hardcover non-fiction list this week. You can see the full lists here.

Amy Jones HAS BEEN SELECTED FOR THE June 2019 LOAN STAR ADULT LIST

May 9, 2019

Amy Jones’ EVERY LITTLE PIECE OF ME is one of ten titles picked for this month’s Loan Star Adult list. You can see the full list here.

Locus Award Finalists Have been announced

May 8, 2019

Several CookeMcDermid authors are on the list of nominees for the 2019 Locus Awards, including John Schoffstall who is a finalist in the Young Adult Book category, and Ann and Jeff VanderMeer who are finalists in the Best Editors category.

Alanna Mitchell’s The Spinning Magnet has been shortlisted for the 2018 SWCC Book Awards

May 7, 2019

The winners of the Science Writers and Communicators of Canada award will be announced in June. You can see the full list of nominees here.

Cathal Kelly Has BEEN shortlisted FOR THE LEACOCK PRIZE

May 7, 2019

Cathal Kelly’s Boy Wonders has been shortlisted for The Leacock Memorial Medal of Humour. The full list of nominees is here.

Erin FrANCES fISHER HAS BEEN NOMINATED FOR the Danuta gleed literary award

May 7, 2019

The Danuta Gleed Literary Award recognizes the best first collection of short fiction by a Canadian author published in 2018 in the English language. You can see the full list of nominees here.

Tima Kurdi Has been shortlisted for the Kobo Emerging Writers Prize

May 1, 2019

Tima Kurdi’s The Boy On The Beach is one of 6 non-fiction titles selected for Kobo’s shortlist. You can see the full list here.

Marsha Skrypuch wins first-ever Arthur Lefebvre Award

April 30, 2019

The new Brantford Writers’ Circle award honours a Brantford author for career excellence.

Claudia Dey’s Heartbreaker has been nominated for the 2019 Northern Lit Award Shortlist

April 30, 2019

Claudia Dey’s Heartbreaker is one of five nominees in the Northern libraries award fiction shortlist. The Northern Lit Award celebrates the contribution of authors from Northern Ontario to Northern culture.

Rupi Kaur’s Milk and Honey has been on the New York Times Bestseller list for 3 Years

Trevor Corkum has been selected for the 2019 CBC Short Story Prize longlist for SAVING FACE

Claudia Dey’s Heartbreaker is a Goop Bookclub Pick

April 9, 2019

This week’s Goop Bookclub pick is Claudia Dey’s Heartbreaker. The US-based lifestyle brand praised the book by saying it is, “a novel that will take hold and not let go, particularly if you’re a sucker for cult stories.” You can read the full review here.

vIVEK sHRAYA IS nominated for the 2019 Lambda Literary Awards

April 1, 2019

I’m Afraid of Men is one of the five titles nominated in the transgender non-fiction category. This is Vivek Shraya’s fifth Lambda Literary Awards nomination.

Erin FrANCES fISHER HAS BEEN NOMINATED FOR one of the 2019 BC Book Prizes

March 20, 2019

CookeMcDermid is profoundly saddened by the passing of patrick lane

TORONTO (Thursday, March 7, 2019): It was announced this evening that distinguished Canadian poet and novelist Patrick Lane has passed away at the age of 79.

Lane’s longtime agent Dean Cooke, of CookeMcDermid, said: “For more than half a century, Patrick Lane has been writing and his work has been superior in its quality, consistently well-published, and eagerly read by tens of thousands of Canadians and readers around the world. Fashion in literature, like so many other aspects of culture, waxes and wanes. As an agent, it is rare to see a career that spans more than a decade or two. When we start to talk about half-centuries, we’re talking about a very exclusive circle. Patrick often professed—not very convincingly—that what he was working on was ‘execrable.’ His work betrayed him. It was always confident, powerful, and masterful. He was a man who used as many moments as he could muster to create his poems, his novels, and his garden. Simply put, I will miss him.”

McClelland & Stewart has long been the proud publisher of Lane’s fiction. Jared Bland, Publisher of McClelland & Stewart, said: “We are all profoundly saddened by the news of Patrick Lane’s death. He was a national treasure—a writer of enormous empathy and humanity, and a beloved teacher and mentor to countless other writers. He lived a remarkable life, and we are fortunate to be able to continue to learn from him through his beautiful and wise books. All of us at McClelland & Stewart and Penguin Random House Canada mourn his passing.”

Patrick Lane was one of Canada’s most renowned writers, and over a distinguished career that spanned fifty years, he produced a multi-award-winning body of work comprising twenty-five volumes of poetry, two novels, and a memoir.

Lane’s memoir, There Is a Season (McClelland & Stewart, 2004), won the Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence and the inaugural British Columbia Award for Canadian Non-fiction, and was also a finalist for the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction, the Hubert Evans Non-fiction Prize, the Pearson Writers’ Trust Non-Fiction Prize, and the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award for Non-fiction. Lane’s first novel, Red Dog (McClelland & Stewart, 2008), was a finalist for the Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award and the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, and was longlisted for the Giller Prize. His second novel was the highly acclaimed Deep River Night (McClelland & Stewart, 2018). With his wife, poet Lorna Crozier, Lane also co-edited three anthologies, Addicted: Notes from the Belly of the Beast (2001), Breathing Fire (1995), and Breathing Fire 2 (2004).

Widely considered one of Canada’s pre-eminent poets, he received the Governor General’s Award for Poetry, the Canadian Authors Association Award, the Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence, and three National Magazine Awards. The Collected Poems of Patrick Lane was published in 2011 by Lane’s longtime poetry publisher, Harbour Publishing, and in 2014, his final book of poetry, Washita (2014), was shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and the Governor General’s Literary Award, and won the Raymond Souster Award.

He had been a writer in residence and teacher at Concordia University, the University of Victoria, and the University of Toronto, and he received five honorary doctorates. In 2014, he was named an Officer of the Order of Canada. He had recently been named the 2019 winner of the George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award for an outstanding literary career in British Columbia.

Lane was also an avid gardener, an environmental activist, and a good friend to those in sobriety.

Patrick Lane was born in Nelson, British Columbia, on March 26, 1939. He died near Victoria, B.C., where he lived for many years with his wife, the poet Lorna Crozier.

Steven Heighton's Poem is shortlisted for The Moth poetry prize

March 7, 2019

Steven Heighton's “Christmas Work Detail, Samos” is one of four poems shortlisted for Ireland’s £10,000 poetry prize. The Moth Poetry Prize is one of the biggest awards in the world for single unpublished poems, and is judged by Jacob Polley.

You can see all of the details about the prize and the poem in this Globe and Mail feature.

Cherie Dimaline's The Marrow Thieves is being adapted for TV

February 27, 2019

Thunderbird Entertainment Group Inc. will be adapting the award-winning novel for television with writer and producer Jennica Harper. Cherie and Jennica will also be executive producers alongside Alexandra Raffé and Ivan Fecan, who is Thunderbird Entertainment's Executive Chair of the Board.

Geddy Lee’s Big Beautiful Book of Bass hits #7 on The Globe and Mail’s Bestseller List

February 19, 2019

Gretta Vosper featured in New York Times Profile

February 5, 2019

“TORONTO — The Rev. Gretta Vosper hadn’t noticed the giant industrial metal cross rising in front of her church for years, hidden as it was by a bushy tree. But then someone complained about it.

Since Ms. Vosper does not believe Jesus was the son of God, the complainer wrote in an email, she should take the cross down.

“The next day, a storm took the tree out,” she said, peering up at the cross with a benign smile.

Some Christians might call that an act of God. But Ms. Vosper does not believe in God either. Instead, the parable says more about her determination. Despite being an outspoken atheist, Ms. Vosper has steadfastly maintained her place in the United Church of Canada, which with two million followers across the country is Canada’s pre-eminent Protestant church.”

February 5, 2019

February 5, 2019

You can see the full list of nominees for the Ontario Library Association fiction award here.

Learning to Breathe LONGLISTED FOR bEST YOUNG aDULT Fiction in 2019

January 18, 2019

The Young Adult Library Services Association selected Janice Lynn Mather’s Learning to Breathe as one of its best fiction picks in 2019. The top ten novels will be determined at the YALSA Teen Feedback Session in a few weeks.

TIMA KURDI AND ANDREW WESTOLL LONGLISTED FOR CANADA READS 2019

January 11, 2019

Congratulations to Tima Kurdi and Andrew Westoll! Their respective non-fiction books THE BOY ON THE BEACH and THE CHIMPS OF FAUNA SANCTUARY have been longlisted for CBC’s 2019 Canada Reads "battle of the books." The theme for this year’s longlisted books is One Book To Move You. The organizers described the selected titles as, “Spanning separations and reconciliations, wars of the past and present, personal histories and imagined futures, these titles will disturb and disrupt, inspire and incite, and move readers to feel, to think and to act.”

The final five books will be announced on January 31, 2019 and the debates will be hosted between March 25-28, 2019.

SHANNON LEE SIMMONS'S LIVING DEBT-FREE NAMED AN INDIGO PICK OF THE MONTH

January 7, 2019

December 11, 2018

The honours were awarded December 10th at a gala reception hosted by CBC Radio's Jeff Goodes at Theatre Aquarius' Norman and Louise Haac Studio. Malla won the fiction award for "Fugue States"(Penguin Random House), a novel about friendship and a young man's search for identity in his family's ancestral home of India. The awards are organized by the Hamilton Arts Council. Sponsors include the Hamilton Public Library, Wolsak and Wynn, Judy Marsales Real Estate, A Different Drummer Books, Epic Books, PV & V Insurance Centre, Mixed Media, King W. Books, Ball Media Group, Theatre Aquarius and iFiori.

THE GLOBE AND MAIL’S “THE GLOBE 100: OUR FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2018” INCLUDES SEVERAL BOOKS BY CMD AUTHORS

November 30, 2018

Every year, The Globe and Mail releases a list of their hundred favourite books of the year. We are thrilled that so many CookeMcDermid authors’ books are among them this year, including (in order of appearance):

You can peruse the full list here. It makes for a great gift-buying guide!

KERRI SAKAMOTO WINS A CANADA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS CANADA-JAPAN LITERARY AWARD

November 22, 2018

The Canada-Japan Literary Awards recognize literary excellence by Canadian writers and translators who write, or translate from Japanese into English or French, a work on Japan, on Japanese themes or on themes that promote mutual understanding between Japan and Canada. This year, we’re delighted to report that Kerri Sakamoto has won for her novel FLOATING CITY.

Kerri Sakamoto is a Toronto-born author of three novels: THE ELECTRICAL FIELD, ONE HUNDRED MILLION HEARTS, and FLOATING CITY. Her first book was nominated for several honours, including a Governor General’s Literary Award, and received the Commonwealth Prize for Best First Book (overall). In addition, The Electrical Field was selected for the Canada-Japan Literary Award in 2000. Her books form a trilogy exploring the experience of Japanese in Canada.

November 19, 2018

Congratulations to Omar El Akkad, Zoey Leigh Peterson and Jeff VanderMeer. Their respective novels AMERICAN WAR, NEXT YEAR, FOR SURE, and BORNE have been longlisted for the 2019 Dublin Literary Award! The €100,000 International Dublin Literary Award is the world’s most valuable annual literary prize for a single work of fiction published in English. Nominations include works by authors from 41 countries in Africa, Europe, Asia, the US, Canada, South America, Australia and New Zealand, with 39 novels in translation. The shortlist will be revealed on April 4th, 2019 and the winner will be announced on June 12th.

FILMING UNDERWAY FOR CAMILLA GIBB’S SWEETNESS IN THE BELLY

November 2, 2018

Last week cameras started rolling for the film adaptation of Camilla Gibb’s 2005 bestselling novel, Sweetness in the Belly. Directed by Zeresenay Berhane Mehari (Difret), with a screenplay by Laura Phillips (Murdoch Mysteries, Jake and the Kid), the film stars Dakota Fanning as a young woman raised Muslim who flees war-torn Ethiopia for London, where she forms close relationships with other refugees. They are currently filming in Dublin, and will also be on location in Ethiopia.

October 30, 2018

Sarah Henstra has won the 2018 Governor General's Literary Award for fiction for her debut adult novel The Red Word!

As the CBC puts it, “The Red Word follows Karen, a college sophomore whose closest friends and roommates — a group of strong-willed intellectual feminists — are at odds with her fraternity brother boyfriend. Karen loves the cerebral debates she has at home with her roommates, as well as the raucous parties at her boyfriend's fraternity house. Caught up in both worlds, Karen inadvertently becomes part of her roommates's elaborate plan to expose rape culture at the fraternity and is haunted by the outcome.”

"Groundbreaking and provocative, this is an astonishing evisceration of the clichés of sexual politics as they exist not only on our college campuses, but also within broader present-day society. Alternately heartbreaking, funny, and critical, no one gets off easily. The Red Word plumbs the depths of literature, mythology, history, philosophy, and a host of contemporary issues — an utterly effing good read," said GG jurors Andrea MacPherson, Shani Mootoo and Craig Francis Power in a press release.

Sarah has a YA novel, WE CONTAIN MULTITUDES, forthcoming in the US by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers and Canada by PRHC Young Readers. Look for it on shelves May 2019!

October 15, 2018

The Sunburst Award Society has announced the winners of the seventh annual Copper Cylinder Award!

The Copper Cylinder Award is an annual award for Canadian literature of the fantastic, selected by members of the Sunburst Award Society for books published during the previous year. It derives its name from what is considered the first Canadian scientific romance, A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder, by James De Mille (1833-1880). All winners of the Copper Cylinder receive a unique, handcrafted copper cylinder trophy.

The 2018 Copper Cylinder Young Adult Award is shared by two works, Scion of the Fox by S.M. Beiko [ECW Press], and Weave A Circle Round by Kari Maaren [Tor Books].

The Sunburst Award Society also confers the annual juried Sunburst Awards for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic. Both awards celebrate the best in Canadian fantastic literature published during the previous calendar year.

Congratulations, Kari!

Cherie Dimaline and sandra kasturi win 2018 sunburst awards

October 15, 2018

The Sunburst Award Committee is pleased to announce the winners of the 2018 Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic in Adult, Young Adult, and Short Story categories, and CookeMcDermid is thrilled to see two of our very own writers recognized!

The 2018 winner of the Sunburst Award for Young Adult Fiction is The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline, [Dancing Cat Books].

The Sunburst Jury commented:Cherie Dimaline’s The Marrow Thieves is the story of young Frenchie, an Indigenous teen, and his companions, who are on the run from a society that wants their bodies — and their souls. The book brilliantly connects the legacy of residential schools to a dystopian post-climate-change future where only Indigenous people are able to dream. Dimaline’s novel reminds us of the power of storytelling and the importance of community, reinforced for the disenfranchised children by the wisdom of the heroic elder, Miigwans. The writing is painful yet beautiful, bleak but ultimately hopeful. In this era of reconciliation, Cherie Dimaline’s The Marrow Thieves is a work of speculative fiction that resonates and stays with the reader long past the last page.

The winner of the 2018 Sunburst Award for Short Story is "The Beautiful Gears of Dying" by Sandra Kasturi [The Sum of Us, Laksa Media].

The Sunburst Jury commented:In a strong field with many outstanding stories, Sandra Kasturi's "The Beautiful Gears of Dying" did for the jury what speculative writing does best, by using a fantastic/technological trope to explore the complexity of human relations and the texture of human life. Kasturi's story is linguistically complex, economical, emotionally intense, and yet accessible, and it provokes recurring thoughts about our human predicaments.

October 3, 2018

“Innovative, troubling, surprising and emotional. This year’s GGBooks finalists have once again proven just how rich, bold, diverse and strong our literature is. Whether they offer exciting ideas, extraordinary illustrations, inspiring verse or outstanding translations, the GGBooks finalists are sure to impress.” —Simon Brault, Director and CEO of the Canada Council for the Arts

These books are among the best published this year in their respective English categories. They are the works that stood out to peer assessment committees from close to 1,400 titles submitted for consideration. The 2018 Governor General’s Award winners will be announced October 30th.

September 26, 2018

"Jen Neale’s Land Mammals and Sea Creatures is a novel which nimbly follows a zig-zagging shoreline between the magic and the real, the beautiful and the vile, the quietly unassuming, and bang-out crazy. What begins with a beached whale dying on a remote B.C. beach spirals into a story of fish guts and human frailties, of intractable war wounds and uncanny animal suicides, of fathers and daughters, and PTSD and the legacies of depression. First-time novelist Neale has managed something truly original: a salty tale of port-town dysfunction and universal pain, written with such abundant beauty and stickily visceral imagery, it corrals every sense. This is a novel to be read not just with the head, but the whole body." —2018 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize Jury (Ann Y.K. Choi, Mireille Silcoff, Robert Wiersema)

September 13, 2018

“Natalie Morrill’s The Ghost Keeper is a lyrical and moving first novel about a young Jewish boy who grows up in Vienna and finds himself and his faith in tending to the city’s old Jewish cemeteries. It is a story about memory, friendship and the terrible choices that people make to survive.” —Jury citation

Now in its fourth year, the Canadian Jewish Literary Awards recognizes and rewards the finest Canadian Jewish writing. The awards ceremony will be held in Toronto on October 14.

September 17, 2018

Label1’s four-part TV series, “Genius Guide to Britain,” follows BBC University Challenge's team captains Eric Monkman and Bobby Seagull as they travel up and down Britain in search of the country's most remarkable scientific and technological achievements.

Today it premiered on BBC Two to 1.8 million viewers!

SCAACHI KOUL STARS IN NETFLIX SERIES FOLLOW THIS

August 23, 2018

Netflix and BuzzFeed have joined forces to produce “Follow This,” a docuseries that takes a look at how some of the site’s more in-depth stories come together. Following staff writers and reporters like Scaachi Koul and Azeen Ghorayshi, these journalists become the lens through which the show covers stories related to ASMR, survivalism, sex worker rights, and gender identity.

It premieres on Netflix August 23rd, 2018.

GARE JOYCE'S YOUNG LEAFS NOMINATED FOR A 2018 HERITAGE TORONTO AWARD

August 2, 2018

Congratulations to the 53 nominees for the 2018 Heritage Toronto Awards. Young Leafs is nominated in the Historical Writing: Book category. You can see all nominees in all categories here.

July 30, 2018

The Sunburst Award is an annual prize celebrating Canadian literature of the fantastic. There are two $1,000 grand prizes — one for the adult category and one for the YA category. The 2018 Sunburst Award winners will be announced in the fall of 2018.

You can read more about the prize and see the full list of shortlisted books here.

TIM CAULFIELD'S SHOW A USER'S GUIDE TO CHEATING DEATH PICKED UP BY NETFLIX

July 29, 2018

The show was inspired by Caulfield’s book, Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About Everything?, in which he debunks celebrity health and wellness advice through science. It originally aired on Vision TV in Canada, was picked up by BBC Earth, and has now been distributed to over 60 countries around the world. It will reach even more people when it becomes available through Netflix later this summer.

And stay tuned for season two! It has been shot and will air on Vision TV in Canada this October.

SOFIA SAMATAR'S TENDER SHORTLISTED FOR 2018 WORLD FANTASY AWARD

July 25, 2018

Tender is nominated for Best Collection. The winners of the 2018 World Fantasy Awards will be announced at the World Fantasy Convention, November 1-4, 2018 in Baltimore, MD.

July 17, 2018

John Irving has won the 2018 Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award, honoring "writers whose works use the power of literature to foster peace, social justice, and global understanding." Previous winners include Studs Terkel, Taylor Branch, Gloria Steinem, and Elie Wiesel. The award will be presented at Dayton Literary Peace Prize gala on October 28.

Congratulations, John!

KERRI SAKAMOTO'S THE FLOATING CITY IS LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 TORONTO BOOK AWARD

July 13, 2018

Established by Toronto City Council in 1974, the awards honour books of literary merit that are evocative of Toronto. This year’s Toronto Book Awards Committee is comprised of volunteer members Nathan Adler, Susan G. Cole, Kevin Hardcastle, Soraya Peerbaye and Itah Sadu. The winner of the 2018 Toronto Book Awards will be announced on October 10 at the Toronto Reference Library. You can read more about the prize and see the full longlist here.

THE SCHOOL YEAR SURVIVAL COOKBOOK IS NOMINATED FOR A 2018 TASTE CANADA AWARD

July 13, 2018

Now in its 21st year, Taste Canada Awards champion cookbook authors and food bloggers, inspiring and encouraging readers at home and abroad to discover delicious recipes and diverse food stories written from a Canadian perspective.

This year, 91 cookbooks and 50 food blogs entered the competition. The shortlist narrows the competition to a maximum of 5 entries per category. The 26 gold and silver award winners will be revealed at the Taste Canada Awards Gala on October 29 at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel in Toronto.

The School Year Survival Cookbook by Laura Keogh and Ceri Marsh is nominated fro Best General Cookbook, given to the best cookbook written by a Canadian author (or authors) that covers a general range of topics, offering a variety of options to the Canadian cook.

VIKKI VANSICKLE'S THE WINNOWING IS NOMINATED FOR HAMILTON PUBLiC LIBrary's teen top novel of 2018

July 10, 2018

It's time for the Hamilton Public Library's annual Top Teen Novel contest! Every week during the summer, you choose which title gets voted off until only one remains. Only one novel comes out on top. YOU decide. You can cast your vote here!

June 20, 2018

The Kobo Emerging Writer Prize supports Canadian debut authors by helping kick-start their careers. A winning book in each category was chosen by established and respected Canadian authors: Zoe Whittall for Literary Fiction, Kelley Armstrong for Speculative Fiction, and Ross King for Non-Fiction, giving the debut writers an impressive vote of confidence from those at the top of their field.

TIMA KURDI'S THE BOY ON THE BEACH NAMED ONE OF INDIGO'S BEST BOOKS OF 2018

June 20, 2018

You can see the complete list of winners and shortlisted authors here.

ONCE MORE WITH FEELING WINS THE CAROL SHIELDS WINNIPEG BOOK AWARD

June 15, 2018

Méira Cook's novel Once More With Feeling has won the Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award, one of three Manitoba Book Awards that the novel was nominated for.

Congratulations, Méira!

ROBYN doolittle wins the 2017 michener award for "UNFOUNDED"

June 12, 2018

The Globe and Mail has won the 2017 Michener Award recognizing public-service journalism for its investigation into how Canadian police handle sexual-assault complaints.

Unfounded, a 20-month long project spearheaded by reporter Robyn Doolittle, looked into the way Canadian police handle sexual-assault complaints. Using data gathered from hundreds of police services across the country, the project showed that sexual-assault complaints are twice as likely to be dismissed as unfounded than complaints in other assault cases.

“The judges concurred that this rigorous, in-depth investigation exemplifies the best in public service journalism and the critical value of media in effecting change,” said Alan Allnutt, president of the Michener Awards Foundation.

Congratulations, Robyn!

THE LITTLE STRANGER to be released as a major motion picture on august 31, 2018

June 11, 2018

A film adaptation of Sarah Waters's 2009 novel The Little Stranger is being released as a major motion picture on August 31st from Focus Features.

From the director of Room, The Little Stranger tells the story of Dr. Faraday, the son of a housemaid, who has built a life of quiet respectability as a country doctor. During the long hot summer of 1948, he is called to a patient at Hundreds Hall, where his mother once worked. The Hall has been home to the Ayres family for more than two centuries. But it is now in decline and its inhabitants - mother, son and daughter - are haunted by something more ominous than a dying way of life. When he takes on his new patient, Faraday has no idea how closely, and how disturbingly, the family’s story is about to become entwined with his own.

ONCE MORE WITH FEELING IS NOMINATED FOR THREE MANITOBA BOOK AWARDS

June 11, 2018

Méira Cook's novel Once More With Feeling is shortlisted for three Manitoba Book Awards: the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction, the Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award, and the McNally Robinson Manitoba Book of the Year Award.

The awards ceremony will be held on Friday, June 15, 2018 in Manitoba.

THE DISAPPEARANCE WINS THE 2018 ERIC HOFFER AWARD FOR BEST YOUNG ADULT NOVEL

May 23, 2018

Gillian Chan's YA novel The Disappearance has wont he 2018 Eric Hoffer Award for Best Young Adult Novel!

The Eric Hoffer Award honors the memory of the great American philosopher Eric Hoffer by highlighting salient writing, as well as the independent spirit of small publishers. Since its inception, the Hoffer has become one of the largest international book awards for small, academic, and independent presses.

THE WINNOWING WINS THE 2018 FOREST OF READING Red Maple Fiction Award

May 15, 2018

The Red Maple Award reading program is offered for the enjoyment of students ages 12 to 13, in Grades 7 and 8. This program includes a Fiction list every year and every other year Red Maple also offers a Non-Fiction list. This program aims to get readers engaging in conversation around the books and encourages them to use critical thinking while reading.

The Forest of Reading® is Canada's largest recreational reading program! This initiative of the Ontario Library Association (OLA) offers eight reading programs to encourage a love of reading in people of all ages. The Forest helps celebrate Canadian books, publishers, authors and illustrators. More than 250,000 readers participate annually from their School and/or Public Library. All Ontarians/Canadians are invited to participate via their local public library, school library, or individually.

ODwabdanotwm & AMERICAN WAR shortlisted for the 2018 Kobo emerging writer prize

May 1, 2018

Scaachi Koul's humorous collection of essays, One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter, is shortlisted for the 2018 Kobo Emerging Writer Nonfiction Prize. Omar El Akkad's dystopian novel, American War, is shortlisted for the 2018 Kobo Emerging Writer Literary Fiction Prize.

OMAR EL AKKAD's AMERICAN WAR wins THE 2018 Ken Kesey Award for fiction

May 1, 2018

The Portland nonprofit Literary Arts named Omar El Akkad's novel American War the recipient of the Ken Kesey Award for Fiction at the 2018 Oregon Book Awards on April 30.

Scaachi Koul's ODWABDANOTWM IS NOMINATED FOR THE LEACOCK MEDAL

April 23, 2018

The Board of Directors of the Leacock Associates announced its 2018 longlist for the 71st Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour, selecting ten titles from a field of 70 entries from across Canada. The final winner, who also receives a $15,000 prize, is to be announced on Saturday, June 9, 2017, at a gala award dinner at Geneva Park Conference Centre, just outside Orillia, Ontario. For the first time, both runner-ups will each receive $3,000, which is double the runner-up prize previously awarded.

Jordan B Peterson’s 12 RULES FOR LIFE SOLD INTO 38 territories & counting

April 20, 2018

We are delighted to report that Dr. Jordan B Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life has sold into 38 territories and counting! The full round up of countries and languages it is or will be published in is as follows:

It continues to be a bestseller in Canada, the US and UK, more than a month after publication.

A. Lee Martinez’s MONSTER goes into production in China

April 20, 2018

A. Lee Martinez’s novel MONSTER–about two humans who don’t like each other much, but together must fight dragons, fire-breathing felines, trolls, Inuit walrus dogs, and a crazy cat lady for the future of the universe–is going to be a movie!

Linmon Pictures began production in Guangzhou, China earlier this month, with an award-winning cast and crew that includes Shawn Yue (from the original Hong Kong version of THE INFERNAL AFFAIR) and Golden Horse Award winners Tumen and Kara Wei.

AMERICAN WAR & THE MARROW THIEVES place 2nd and 3rd in CBC’s Canada Reads 2018 competition

April 20, 2018

We are very proud that Cherie Dimaline’s YA novel THE MARROW THIEVES placed third and Omar El Akkad’s speculative novel, AMERICAN WAR, set fifty years in the future, placed second in this year’s heated Canada Reads debate.